[Open-collaboration-services] OCS 1.6 draft - download, repositories, package names

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 28.07.2010, at 08:21, Mateu Batle wrote:

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> comments below
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> On 07/27/2010 03:16 PM, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>> On 20.07.2010, at 20:28, Mateu Batle wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
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>> Hi Mat,
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>>> there is one problem with the current draft, there is no way from the
>>> client to know the package name and repository until we really issue the
>>> download to the OCS server (and thus incrementing the download count).
>>> We need to know in advance, since the client checks if the application
>>> is already installed or not, or if there is an update available (that is
>>> done through the repository currently).
>>> 
>>> Can we change it so we can get this information efficiently somehow
>>> without altering the download count ? Maybe in content list request.
>>> 
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>> Hmmm. The idea is to provide the repository and the package name only with the download method.
>> This ensures that the client really calls this method. This is important to handle the download counter, store which users has what app and handles payment.
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> Agree about download counter, our client will call the download method too.
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>> In KDE (GHNS) we use the version field to check if a new version of a content is available.
>> We store the version number of the current installed content and compare it with the version on the server.
>> 
>> Isn´t this also possible for your usecase?
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> I don't think this works for our case. I'm not familiar with GHNS, but I
> guess in GHNS you have the application hardcoded,
> so you just have to get a specific content data (content get method) and
> check version against current hardcoded version.
> In our case it is not possible because we have an application installer,
> so we can have many applications installed,
> the only way to know if they are installed in the local system is via
> the package name and query the package installer backend
> (packagekit, yum, apt-get or whatever).
> 
> best regards
>  Mat
> 

Hi Mat,

I added the repository and packagename tags now also to the get method in the specification.
It is also already implemented on openDesktop.org and on the testserver test.opendesktop.org

So I hope everything works now for you. :-)


Cheers
Frank




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>>> best regards
>>> Mat
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>> Cheers
>> Frank
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>> --
>> Frank Karlitschek
>> karlitschek at kde.org
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